intelligentsia

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She said her career as a painter, printmaker, collage and stained-glass artist and teacher meant she mixed with the "intelligentsia of Swansea".

From BBC • Dec. 14, 2024

Well educated and intelligent, Navalny was nevertheless not part of the intelligentsia, a fact which only helped broaden his appeal.

From Slate • Feb. 16, 2024

On Friday, Christopher Mathias of HuffPost released an exposé of Richard Hanania, a rising star of the right's supposed intelligentsia.

From Salon • Aug. 8, 2023

Not that there’s a great intelligentsia in this country.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2023

Meanwhile, at school I was quietly collecting bits of data, trying to sort out my place inside the teenage intelligentsia.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama